Posted by Allison as Career Moves, Conscience & Morality Tales, Mischief & Mayhem at 9:05 AM PDT
02/05/2006
Breaking News: Anna Nicole Smith Dead
And the Anna Nicole Smith legal battle marches on. Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court awarded Anna Nicole Smith the right to continue her legal battle in pursuit of her late husband J. Howard Marshall’s fortune.
As previously reported, the former Playboy playmate Smith married oil tycoon Marshall II, 89, in 1994 while she was a 26-year-old topless dancer in Texas. Marshall died the following year of their marriage and Smith contended that she was promised half his fortune, valued at $1.6 Billion. During their short marriage Marshall showered Smith with $6.6 million in gifts that included two homes, $2.8 million in jewelry & $700,000 in clothes.
Pierce Marshall, J. Howard Marshall’s son & Anna Nicole’s stepson, though I doubt they have mother & son talks, disputes Smith’s claims that J. Howard intended to give her half his estate & insists that the $6.6 million worth of gifts she received during the 14-month marriage was all she was entitled to.
However, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (that’s a mouthful) has determined that the recent appeals court ruling, which entitled Smith to nothing, was wrong. And now mother & stepson will engage in all out war. Can’t we just decide this via mud wrestle?
Pierce Marshall made his voice heard with a warning to Anna Nicole Smith & legal team, “(I’ll) continue to fight to clear my name in California federal court. That is a promise that (Smith) and her lawyers can take to the bank.”
And I bet they will. I bet they will.
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One Response to: Anna Nicole Smith has Her Day in Court
E. Pierce Marshall Dies, Anna Nicole Smith Wins? - Celebrific
June 26th, 2006 at 8:50 am
[...] I know this is a little bit late, but better now than never, right? Apparently E. Pierce Marshall who was in a fierce legal battle with Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith died last Tuesday unexpectedly. The 67-year-old business man died in the Dallas area after a “brief and extremely aggressive infection.” I wonder, was the extremely aggressive infection named Anna Nicole Smith? [...]
Brian Porter
February 8th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Nope. She didn’t win either. She probably would have lived longer if she wasn’t “famous”. The story is all around sad for everyone involved. Who gets the money?
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